P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

There can be no compromise with war.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the trade of Kings.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.